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Machine reading comprehension with unanswerable questions is a new challenging task for natural language processing. A key subtask is to reliably predict whether the question is unanswerable. In this paper, we propose a unified model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Fu Sun , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu , Yang Liu

A turn in a computation of a pushdown automaton is a switch from a phase in which the height of the pushdown store increases to a phase in which it decreases. Given a pushdown or one-counter automaton, we consider, for each string in its…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Giovanni Pighizzini

CNNs and computational models of biological vision share some fundamental principles, which opened new avenues of research. However, fruitful cross-field research is hampered by conventional CNN architectures being based on spatially and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Nergis Tomen , Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert

We consider equivalence and containment problems for word transductions. These problems are known to be undecidable when the transductions are relations between words realized by non-deterministic transducers, and become decidable when…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Sougata Bose , Anca Muscholl , Vincent Penelle , Gabriele Puppis

Common Neighbors (CNs) and their higher-order variants are important pairwise features widely used in state-of-the-art link prediction methods. However, existing methods often struggle with the repetition across different orders of CNs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Juntong Wang , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Bayesian neural network (BNN) priors are defined in parameter space, making it hard to encode prior knowledge expressed in function space. We formulate a prior that incorporates functional constraints about what the output can or cannot be…

We look at nondeterministic finite automata augmented with multiple reversal-bounded counters where, during an accepting computation, the behavior of the counters is specified by some fixed pattern. These patterns can serve as a useful…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

A class of languages C is perfect if it is closed under Boolean operations and the emptiness problem is decidable. Perfect language classes are the basis for the automata-theoretic approach to model checking: a system is correct if the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Javier Esparza , Pierre Ganty , Rupak Majumdar

Observabililty is an important topic of Boolean control networks (BCNs). In this paper, we propose a new type of observability named online observability to present the sufficient and necessary condition of determining the initial states of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guisen Wu , Liyun Dai , Zhiming Liu , Taolue Chen , Jun Pang

This work attempts to address two fundamental questions about the structure of the convolutional neural networks (CNN): 1) why a non-linear activation function is essential at the filter output of every convolutional layer? 2) what is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 C. -C. Jay Kuo

We present complexity results regarding a matching-type problem related to structural controllability of dynamical systems modelled on graphs. Controllability of a dynamical system is the ability to choose certain inputs in order to drive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Lily Briggs

We show that many classical decision problems about 1-counter omega-languages, context free omega-languages, or infinitary rational relations, are $\Pi_2^1$-complete, hence located at the second level of the analytical hierarchy, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Olivier Finkel

Well-structured transition systems (WSTS) are an abstract family of systems that encompasses a vast landscape of infinite-state systems. By requiring a well-quasi-ordering (wqo) on the set of states, a WSTS enables generic algorithms for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Ashwani Anand , Sylvain Schmitz , Lia Schütze , Georg Zetzsche

Nosie is an important cause of low quality Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image. The neural network model based on Convolutional neural networks(CNNs) has demonstrated its excellent performance in image denoising. However, OCT image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Jie Du , Xujian Yang , Kecheng Jin , Xuanzheng Qi , Hu Chen

Deterministic one-way time-bounded multi-counter automata are studied with respect to their ability to perform reversible computations, which means that the automata are also backward deterministic and, thus, are able to uniquely step the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Martin Kutrib , Andreas Malcher

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) with recurrence and self-attention have been shown to be Turing-complete (TC). However, existing work has shown that these ANNs require multiple turns or unbounded computation time, even with unbounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Kifer , Lee Giles

This paper clarifies the picture about Dense-choice Counter Machines, which have been less studied than (discrete) Counter Machines. We revisit the definition of "Dense Counter Machines" so that it now extends (discrete) Counter Machines,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-11-19 Florent Bouchy , Alain Finkel , Pierluigi San Pietro

We study linear-time temporal logics interpreted over data words with multiple attributes. We restrict the atomic formulas to equalities of attribute values in successive positions and to repetitions of attribute values in the future or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Stephane Demri , Diego Figueira , M Praveen

We study succinctness as a measure of the expressive power of transformers. Succinctness -- how compactly a formalism can describe a language relative to other formalisms -- is a classical notion in logic and automata theory. We prove that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Bergsträßer , Ryan Cotterell , Anthony W. Lin

We consider history-determinism, a restricted form of non-determinism, for Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS) when used as acceptors to recognise languages of finite words. History-determinism requires that the non-deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Sougata Bose , David Purser , Patrick Totzke